#performance

After his recent benchmarking of Java 8 Streams, Nicolai Parlog is back to document suggestions from the community of other possible profiles. Parlog wants us all to remember that with Stream performance, numbers can lie.

Java performance is a hot topic at the moment and its Nicolai Parlog’s turn to get in on the action. He asks an important question of Java 8 Streams: can their performance really be that bad? Let’s get into investigating.

It’s really easy to misrepresent data, so its important to keep your performance percentiles in check. Alex Zhitnitsky shows us the Java performance metrics you need to follow for understanding how your application behaves in production.

This year’s Developer Productivity Report chose to highlight Java performance and testing, finding that developers are happier, more productive and produce better quality code when performance testing is run during the coding process.

The performance tuning world is a dangerous place says Alex Zhitnitsky, who takes a look at how garbage collection affects java performance. Read on to understand what you’re up against, possible solutions and other alternatives available to you.